Could BitTorrent turn out to be an Internet service provider's best friend?
Half a dozen years ago, the popular file-sharing protocol was nothing but a headache for ISPs as broadband users filled their connections with torrent files (most often,...

CERN's Large Hadron Collider will be turned back on in March and a few weeks later will start smashing sub-atomic particles together again at nearly double its previous power, helping scientists hunt for clues about the universe.
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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is once again getting ready to smash protons together, hoping to find evidence of elusive and exotic particles that have never been detected before.
The largest and fastest particle accelerator in the world, located in Geneva, will officially start up again in March. When it is turned on, scientists and engineers say the two beams of protons that fly around its 17-mile loop at close to the speed of light will collide with nearly double the energy of the previous run....

Some serious groundwork has been laid. Some amazing instruments are turning on. Some incredible destinations are in sight. If you ask us, 2015 is going to be an awesome year in science.
From solar system exploration to new adventures in particle physics to the possible defeat of a microscopic foe, here are some of the science stories we can’t wait to follow in the coming year.
1. Our first good look at Pluto
In 2015 humans will get a good look at Pluto -- for the very first time. Our...

Film critic Roger Ebert, Hamas informant Mosab Hassan Yousef and the scientists behind the Large Hadron Collider are some of the subjects of documentaries nominated by the Producers Guild of America for its 2015 awards.
The nominees are "The Green Prince," about Hassan Yousef and his Israeli handler; "Life Itself," a portrait of the late Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic Ebert; "Merchants of Doubt," a look at modern-day spin doctors and media manipulators; "Particle Fever," an account of the search for...

Welcome to the family! Scientists using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Europe have discovered two new subatomic particles.
The discovery of the two related particles, submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters, fills in missing slots in the subatomic roster that had been predicted but never seen.
“It’s reassuring,” said study coauthor Matthew Charles, a particle physicist at the French National Center for Scientific Research’s LPNHE laboratory at the University...

To find the tiny subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, scientists had to build an accelerator with a 17-mile circumference -- but with a little unconventional technology, such giant machines could one day be a thing of the past.
A team led by researchers at Stanford's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has used a plasma-based device that’s just a few inches longer than a paper-towel tube to punch particles up to energies 500 times higher than they could reach in the same distance in a...

This week’s episode of Cosmos paid tribute to the mind-bending science behind some of the most popular tropes in science fiction, so it’s only fitting that it also featured a special cameo by none other than Patrick Stewart. Stewart is best known to his legion of fans as Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (That high-pitched sound you hear is a collective “squee!” from my fellow geekerati.)
Stewart voices astronomer William Herschel in an animated sequence set in 1802,...